I Woke Up One Morning To Find The World Had Changed! By Alfred N.Muggins

14/3/22

    I woke up one morning, soon after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. And what were my first thoughts of the day you may ask? Well of course, my first thoughts were of him and of the changed world he had so suddenly put us in. Most of us, the complacent and entertainment loving citizens of the modern world, had no thought that this would be the Europe we would be facing in 2022, so soon after Christmas, so soon after the assumed end of the Covid Crisis!

     All of us, I am sure were looking forward to our next Hollywood blockbuster, usually in the comfort of our own homes, on our huge wallscreen TV’s (or maybe just normal ones?), or one of many long TV series’ that I never seem to have the time to get to the end of, or indeed a lovely holiday abroad after the Covid interruptions of the previous two years.

     But instead, courtesy of The Supersmart President of the Russian Federation, one of the more stable leaders of the world, many of us had once thought, we have a new form of entertainment, directly onto our screens, 24 hours a day, backed up by video and mobile phone evidence eight days a week, we have World War Three, from every angle, and one of the biggest refugee crises even Europe has ever seen, (and it’s all free on digital freeview or included in your TV packages already!)

     Swiftly I sat on the edge of the bed, knowing I must relieve my bladder as usual, before returning to bed for a bit longer before meeting the day properly. But first I must look out of the window for any evidence of a Russian presence in the sky? After his majesty potentate Putin’s nuclear comments a day or two before I quickly surveyed the skies for any trace of mushroom clouds, and thankfully seeing none, checked further for signs of Jets At Dawn, or worse – incoming missiles, because we’ll be lucky ever to even see them if they actually had our names on them! Because they fly so fast!

     Thankfully none appeared but I did begin to worry that maybe we in the UK, or even NATO did not have enough jets to protect our own airspaces, let alone that of Ukraine (which we were not yet allowed to directly protect as the International and Constitutional Lawyers had warned us against direct intervention which the Russians could interpret as us declaring World War 3 on them, despite them having actually invaded Ukraine!)

     The Russians did not yet officially admit that there was even a War on, at any rate they had not yet seen fit to tell their own apparently unsuspecting public that they had already started one and it was against their ex Soviet partner Republic of Ukraine. I, like most of the western media, had the feeling that Putin was only going to break the news that there was a real war on to their own public gradually, and that he, their great and most wise and reliably solid leader had actually started it himself, without even talking to them about it first!

     Probably he wanted to tell them they had conquered Ukraine only after they had actually completed the conquest, perhaps just in case he did not succeed, and then he could pass it off not as a failure, but as a short and highly successful series of surgical strikes or something! which were never intended to conquer the whole Ukraine anyway!

     I remembered that Hitler would never have done it this way. He would at least have been upfront about the fact that he was taking over another country, and told his own soldiers and his population all about it to whip up their enthusiasm, (although there were quite a few things he did which he did try to keep secret from many of the Germans, suspecting that they might not really be too keen on everything that was being done for them, in their name.)